Hey everybody this is matt with Mikey Designs & Silk Screen and today what this
video is about is a manual screen printing challenge with just one
Operator and basically what the challenge is I want to see how fast the
other screen printers can can print with just one person loading the two shirts
printing and unloading to your conveyor dryer and so I'll run it off this one
color job when I got the idea not that to be fun for everybody to just kind of
join in and you know see how many t-shirts you can print with it an hour
but we're only doing it within a five-minute time so basically what I'm
going to do is I'm going to set a timer for 5 minutes I'm left on here and and
then we'll count and see how many t-shirts are print ok and I'd be happy
for you all to join in ok I got my phone set to 5 minutes I'm gonna hit start and
I'm gonna start printing okay ready and here we go
I hope everybody's doing okay today it's a Monday and I'm out in Sugar Land Texas
which is just outside of Houston and this is my garage without house and do
this part-time and I really enjoy it and
they really need if some job will join in the how I got this idea to do this
little challenge was basically I haven't been in a screen printing industry for
too long I've been doing this since about October that's when I officially
got my DBA as my key designs and silkscreen by the way you can go to my
website and check it out ww-why sceeto science calm as m-i-k-e-y and designs
with an S I'll put that up on the screen for you but um I'm fairly new to the
industry and when you're looking at equipment such as conveyor dryers or
even maybe you've looked around and looked at automatic presses or you look
at tutorial videos that people talk about
how they're printing at 75 to 100 t-shirts an hour never really knew how
quick that is so this was kind of a way to figure out how quickly I'm printing
and right now I'm just trying to quick as print as I can obviously because this
is a little challenge so I've gotten warmed up a little bit this morning
Princeton tasty very awesome and this is just a simple one color job on a white
t-shirt with the royal blue this blue is real easy to print and so I thought this
might be my best shot to see how quickly - pretty shirt and the other day or I
guess yesterday really walls running off this job this job that I'm doing here is
a thousand t-shirts and I was getting into a good rhythm and I tie myself for
a couple minutes and times if I'm 30 and I was coming out
to about 240 t-shirts an hour but you know that's 2 minutes time and for two
minutes it's not too difficult to keep up this pace or even go faster
especially if you have yourself a Red Bull or monster something like that
which I don't really drink you know again some people energy anyways I'm
running off this job and did a test run for two minutes and I thought to myself
well maybe 2 minutes isn't another time to get an accurate aging of how
or slowly I'm printing and so I thought hey why not do it for five minutes
because if you keep at for five minutes and the speed and you know if you do
this for a living I'm sure you could probably keep up this speed for an
outward sign but for the sake of doing this little challenge and not boring
anyone for an hour we're doing it just for five minutes and the video must be
at you know regular speed what I'm doing here and one of the reasons I'm just
kind of talking through it just so you know I'm not by any means I think it'd
be really neat if y'all join in and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna post this
around but there we go I didn't get to this one so that's not a
print okay so I'm gonna stop the video and I'm gonna go back and see how many
t-shirts are pretty okay I'll be right back okay so I'm back I went back and
looked at the video and it looks like I did about 19 t-shirts that one last
t-shirt didn't count because I didn't completely print it before my timer went
off so the math on 19 t-shirts in five minutes
it's 228 t-shirts an hour and I hope you guys join in and I think it would be fun
and just remember that you have to have a manual press one person loading
printing and unloading the t-shirts and there can't be any missed prints or I
forget what the exact terminology is but they have to be good clean prints they
can be white t-shirt whatever color you want to do
or you can do faster and well thanks for joining in and we'll see you around